Chris came to Catholicism in 1999 with a background in Dostoyevskian existentialism, Hindu Occultism, and a penchant for mendicancy.  Chris’ leadership skills and punitive zeal are responsible for all SJM productivity.  Married to Melinda Selmys in the winter of 2000, he is the father of four very promising chikldren.  When not  fighting the good fight, he enjoys foreign films, songwriting, psychoanalysis, and all things Russian.

David is a convert to Catholicism from Celtic paganism and Western Occultism soaked in Shakespearean rhetoric and Hindu aesthetics.  Having given up the life of esoteric dilettante, he is now finishing his Honours Degree in Christianity and Culture and Philosophy at the University of Toronto.  He is a devotee of G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien, enjoys all (old) things theological and literary, and is adamant that the written word is saved “by splash alone”.  He hopes to enter an M.A. Program in Theology somewhere in the U.S. or Europe in the Fall of 2005.

Before becoming Catholic from a nominal Anglican background three years ago, Neil was an old-school Marxist and secular humanist activist with Buddhist sympathies and pan-sexual convictions.  He is now an orthodox Catholic of decidedly philosophical temper and has his Honours Degree in philosophy from Trent University.  He is fond of drinking, Jazz, Leonard Cohen, English waistcoats, and meat untainted by vegetables.  He is currently a member of the Madonna House community in Combermere and fulfills his duties as Webmaster entirely via intercessory prayer. Neil would like to point out that this picture is a few years old and that he now sports a beard, meaning he doesn't actually look like a twelve year-old kid as he has been accused of in this picture.

Fr. Vit Fiala, OFM
Spiritual Director

Fr. Vit is a Czechoslovakian emigree to North American shores from the pensive era of the Communist Empire's protracted death-rattle.  A professional cellist of orchestral renown become Franciscan friar at unawares, Fr. Vit is a sagacious spiritual director of palpably mystical temperament and Desert Father stripe.  A perennial source of inspiration to all who know him, he is currently the director of the Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Youngstown, Ohio, and is busied by various translation projects for Ignatius Press and, please God, the library of St. Jerome's Ministries. 
 

Formally known as Anne Perdue, Sr. Mary Catherine has supported St. Jerome's Ministry's with her fervent prayers and considerable enthusiasm since its inception. An avid Pro-Life activist and cradle Catholic whose adult faith first began to flower within a “spirit-filled” evangelical milieu, she has since returned to the Catholic faith with a vengeance, recently taking the first of her vows as a Sister of Our Lady Immaculate in Cambridge. She is apt to turn up at Catholic conferences, pro-life rallies and local airports whenever a serious crisis threatens the ministry, and is always willing to help out with hours of adoration, masses, fasts and fierce penances on our behalf. 

Fr. Stan is a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Enugu, Eastern Nigeria. He is a graduate student of Theology and Ministry. He has published four books and many academic papers. He contributes regularly on a wide range of issues in local and international magazines and journals. His area of research is Christology especially the encounter of Christ with Cultures. For the past few years he has been in Peterborougho, Ontario doing research and pastoral work.  He has always been enthusiastic about our ministry and has contributed several articles.

Cardinal Tomas Spidlik was ordained a priest in Maastricht on 22 August 1949. For the past 38 years he has been the spiritual director of the Pontifical Nepomuceno Seminar, and is hailed as one of the greatest experts of eastern Christian spirituality today. His work  combines years of conscientious research and reflection with an organic theological vision and an artistic sensitivity to contemporary culture. He was the first holder of the seat of Eastern Theology founded at the Pontifical Oriental Institute, and in March of 1995, Fr. Spidlik led the spiritual exercises of Pope John Paul II and his Curia. In 1998 the president of the Czech Republic decorated him with the medal of the Masaryk Order, one of the highest honors of the Czech State. He was made a cardinal by Pope John Paul II on the 21st of October 2003, and has been kind enough to give permission to publish Fr. Vit's English translations of his work in our magazine.